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Sunday, 16 September 2012

Ndulge me, Ndulgent Bloggers!

Hello readers!

I am so thrilled to be part of the Indulgent Blog Hop today!

There are some fabulous prizes up for grabs today. I'll be giving away a copy of my newest book, but more on that below. There is also an amazing grand prize of $100 GF from WINNER'S CHOICE of Barnes & Noble or Amazon. So make sure you follow along, and visit everyone's sites.

Indulgence. What sort of feelings does this word conjure up for you?
Decadence. Excess. Perhaps even too much of a good thing?
Or does it feel just right?

I think we've all been made to feel at some point that indulgence is a negative thing. Something to be avoided, or we pay the price.

I'd like to share some of my indulgences. Hmmm, let's see.
Well, I'd do many a naughty thing for a jar of Nutella. That's pretty common knowledge. I'd also be willing to fight you for a bag of Lay's chips. (Okay, maybe those two are bad indulgences).
A long, hot bath, preferably with handsome company. That's another good one.
A nice, cold bottle of beer. Sleeman's Clear is my personal fave, but I'd offer you good money for a Corona.
I think one of my favorite indulgences is a day on a Mexican beach. Lying in the sun, feeling it absorb into my skin, smelling cocoa butter all around me as the breezes caress me....Okay, now I'm just getting carried away!

Tell me, what are your most sinful indulgences?

Leave a comment with your email address, and you could win a copy of my new paranormal romance The Selkie!

In the mean time, please read on for an excerpt from The Selkie, and find out a little bit about my heroine Maggie's favorite indulgence!

Blurb:

This was
supposed to be her year. However, after losing her job and discovering her
fiancé cheating, Maggie Collins has her doubts. When her grandmother dies, she
hits rock bottom. Maggie travels to her grandmother’s home in Orkney, Scotland
to sort through her gran’s things, only to discover the old woman has left her
a seal pelt as her inheritance. She also learns that others are after the pelt.

To add to her
frustration, Maggie’s dreams are filled with luscious images of a long-haired
man, images that draw her to the magical beaches in Orkney. Although she’s lost
her trust in men, this dream man inspires her with a lust she’s never known
before.

Calan Kirk
has also been dreaming. Dreaming of Maggie, the mortal woman who arouses him as
no other woman ever has. Meeting her in the flesh when she arrives in Orkney is
nothing short of spontaneous sexual combustion. But she is a human, and not to
be trusted. He needs the seal pelt, not a red-haired temptress.

As a thief
ransacks Maggie’s grandmother’s house, Maggie and Calan are thrust together.
They must search for the animal skin, a mythical relic which once found, will
either bring them together or rip them apart forever.

Excerpt:

She was
attempting to stand on her wobbly legs, only to fall back down on her bottom,
when she heard the sound of splashing water. Thinking it was her seal, Maggie
turned to look.

Her breath
caught in her throat. It wasn’t the animal at all.

It was a man.
He was rising out of the waves, walking toward her. She froze. He was nude,
utterly nude, and was staring at her with overflowing intimacy. As if they’d
had, God help her, relations.

And she
realized, with sudden panic, they’d had! In her dreams. He was the seal-man
from all her sex dreams.

No.
Impossible.

Her first
instinct was to call for help, but there was no one near. And then she realized
with frightening awareness that she didn’t want any help anyway. Glued to her
spot, she couldn’t help but drink him in.

He was
beautiful, if unnervingly wet and naked. He had long, shiny, brown hair that
hung down past his shoulders. His face could have belonged on an ad for expensive
cologne, and he had a body to match. Sculpted shoulders gave way to arms corded
in muscle. His defined chest was blanketed by a smattering of sparse, brown
hair that led tantalizingly to his rock-hard abs.

Maggie held
her breath as her gaze traveled lower on his body, taking in trim calves and
thighs a quarterback would envy. And, she noted with simultaneous hunger and
horror, his penis was the biggest she’d ever had the pleasure of seeing. It was
thick and long and glistening with the droplets of water that yet cascaded over
his body. And it seemed to be reaching for her. She gulped, and forced herself
to look back up at his face.

There was a
faint glow about his skin, a shimmery aura. Dismissing it as a trick of the
moonlight, she shook her head.

He was almost
upon her, and his full lips were taut in a teasing grin. Maybe he was a surfer
who’d lost not only his board, but his shorts in the waves. She knew she should
be frantic, but wasn’t. There was something in his brown eyes that was so
familiar, so soothing, even as they swept over her own body with lustful
appreciation.

He stopped in
front of her, and stood boldly, unashamed of his glorious nakedness. She
managed to spit out one hushed word. “You.”

My favorite indlugence would be a nice long walk in the woods, or to snuggle up in a cozy cabin with my computer so I can just write without disturbance. Ah, dream on.Right now, I have to do with a lobster dinner at a nice restaurant. lol.

One of my favorite indulgences is watching Sons of Anarchy- I know it's hopelessly violent, and it's the opposite of my normal polite self- but maybe that's why I love it! I don't watch a lot of TV so it has to really suck me in. Another is the Body Shop's Brazil Nut Butter. Then you can get that beach feeling all year round! Best of luck with your blog hop!

I have to say my indulgences are simple a good hot book and a bag of peanut M & M's although the Nutella and Lay's potato chips are pretty high on the list. :O) Thanks for a steamy excerpt, wheres my Kindle and the m&m's LOL!Carinmawmom at gmail dot com

I'd say my favourite indulgence is reading a book to two on my kindle while eating some chocolate while my child sleeps quietly next door that to me is the ultimate these days and not to be sniffed at lol xx

What a great hop! My indulgence: CHOCOLATE & Erotic PNR BOOKS! And not feeling guilty about it at all. LOLThanks for being part of the hop and for the chance to win. <^_^> reneebennett35(at)yahoo(dot)com

Books are my indulgence! I cant resist them. I see them and want them. When i read them, i want even more! lol And chocolate is high up there too! :D Thanks for the awesome hop and giveaway! :)shadowluvs2read(at)gmail(dot)com